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Why would you have to be that bug with the rare disease that left him without the protective exoskeleton and with exposed soft gooey flesh? Especially when there’s an airborne flesh-eating pathogen on the loose?

A microscope cured polio. And then there’s TB. No more vans parked on the sides of streets, quietly announcing the paralysis and death of thousands of children. But you’re not old enough to remember it, so you only think of the current diseases. One day the cure for cancer, for the HIV virus, for malaria for all sorts of other diseases will be seen through a microscope. And then the next generation will also ignore what a microscope did for them.

Lighten up! I somehow doubt Adam is advocating scientific ignorance – merely the way microscopes are used in many SF films and TV. Most of the time when you see a scientist looking in one (in a film), the first words out of their mouth is either: “Oh oh.” Or “This is bad.” It’s like Elizabethan films where the character says: “We shall have such a wonderful life!” and then coughs. You know they’re doomed to die of consumption in the next act.